It' was one the best successful movies from the eighties, "A Marvada Carne" (That Dammed Meat) is a proposition utterly grounded in Brazilian mystical folklore stablished by years of foreign colonization blended with African culture, that had inserted in imaginary popular thru the centuries, so upon this premise is built a fabulous story of main character Nhô Quim.
A young illiterate yokel guy Quim (Adilson Barros), living alone with a dog in a small shack in the backlands working of your own sustenance as corn, rice, bean, eggs, vegetables, chickens and just occasionally meat for hunting at nearby forest, however he never had eaten bovine meat, upon this desire he decides moving forward in order to at last try taste this desirable delicacy, the striver yokel soon reaches in another small farmer community which has a teenager girl Carula (Fernanda Montenegro) that has been hardly prayed for the famous matchmaker Saint Anthony to send to her a handsome and wealthy applicant.
In this provincial life unfolds this enjoyable story among an upcoming marriage, many weird happenings come over as a kind of knowledge test aiming for to certifies if the contestant is enough able to marry her, also a hard and funny jargons from countryside are fully applied in their speeches, almost indiscernible by mostly, also many characters from Brazilian folklore are expose along the movie as "Curupira" a kind of mystic being that protects the forest, also a folkloric bargain with the alleged "Cussaruim" a sort of "Devil" due this spoken word brings bad luck for whom says, Quim advised by an older Witch to offer a black chicken in late night in a haunted spot to try a haggling with devilish being.
Although the outcome in a modern city spoils a fine offering, quite sure it stands the test of time, it's still fresh and original, developed by André Klotzel with a fabulous supporting casting as the veteran actor Dionizio Azevedo, the eternal Mazzaropi's wife Jeny Prado and the young Regina Casé, among others.
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First watch: 1988 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 8.
